An image correction apparatus includes an exposure-level calculating unit that calculates an exposure level using information on an image capturing unit, which captures image data, at the time of capture of an image, a brightness calculating unit that calculates brightness of the image using information on the image data captured by the image capturing unit, and an image correction unit that corrects the brightness of the image data in accordance with the exposure level calculated by the exposure-level calculating unit and the brightness of the image calculated by the brightness calculating unit.